SHELBURNE FALLS — Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8503 is looking for veterans who served in a combat area to supplement its membership, and is offering to pay new members’ first-year dues.
VFW Post 8503 helps with parades and other community organizations with donations, as well as veterans in need.
To join, bring your DD214 form to the post, located at 10 Water St., or call 413-325-6154. Meetings are held on the first Sunday of every month at 9:30 a.m. Those who are already a member of another VFW and would like to transfer are also welcome.
SHELBURNE FALLS — Local poet Marie Gauthier, who recently published “Leave No Wake,” will give a reading on Friday, May 27, at 6 p.m. at the Arms Library.
The program will be held in the upstairs reading room, according to an Arms Library press release. Masks are required. The library is handicap accessible using the lower-level entrance around back.
Gauthier’s first full-length collection, “Leave No Wake,” was published by Pine Row Press in April. She’s also the author of the chapbook “Hunger All Inside” (Finishing Line Press). According to the release, her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Sugar House Review, The West Review and elsewhere. She was also the recipient of a 2008 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, and received an honorable mention in the 2010 prizes.
She works for Pioneer Valley Books in Northampton as the marketing project editor, and runs the Collected Poets Series in Shelburne Falls, where she lives with her family. Gauthier also serves as the founding president of the League of Women Voters of Franklin County.
For more information, call 413-625-0306 or email armslibrary@gmail.com.
SHELBURNE FALLS — Stuart Kenney and DriveTrain will perform outdoors at The Mill at Shelburne Falls, located at 49 Conway St., on Sunday, June 5, at 6 p.m.
The concert is a fundraiser for The Permaculture Place, a nonprofit permaculture exhibit center and gift shop that will have its grand opening from noon to 5 p.m. that day.
Kenney, a renowned banjo player, and his bluegrass trio DriveTrain perform music from Appalachia, fiddle tunes, work songs and heartfelt originals. Attendees are advised to bring a ground blanket or a camping chair, although extra chairs will be available.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit bit.ly/3NyXPPZ. Tickets cost $20.